Crash to desktop while the game is running "Arma 2 oa has stopped working"

[Pyromanuel 0]

Hey there,

I haven't played DayZ for a while and just resumed it. I can join servers, no problem.

After playing for a while my game freezes for a second or too and crashes to desktop, a windows pop-up telling me that the game has stopped working. The time I am able to play varies but I have not found any correlations that could affect that. All the threads I found so far were concerned with the game CTD while trying to connect so these werre a different story because I can actually play the game for a while.

The game runs fluently and I had the resourcemonitor running to see if like all my memory or CPU got depleted but i wasn't near my limits when I crashed.

I played the game until like september, it ran fine back then. A few days ago I updated it via DayZ-Commander and could continue playing until I ran into this bug. I also installed the Breaking Point mod, my problem occours with both BP and normal DayZ.

Has anyone any clue about that? I appreciate any suggestions.

I gues you'd be asking for it anyway so here are my specs

Win 7 x64

4 x 3,20 GHz

4 GB RAM

need to know anything else?

Pyromanuel

[applejaxc 2500]

Your ram cards could be dying (how old is your PC?). What recent changes have you made to your PC, soft/hardware, other than different install to DayZ/DZC?

[Pyromanuel 0]

Wow, really good question. Thing ist, I remember my computer to be pretty good and I didn't notice how the time passed. I got it August 2009, I guess it's alredy PRETTY old now xD I had to dig up some old bank statements to find the date I bought it because I couldn't remember^^

So it has served roughly 4 1/2 years now.

DayZ has worked fine before so it still should spec-wise. Does RAM really fall apart that fast?

Recent changes... a lot I'd say. A lot of software and games come and go, I dont keep track. Before I consider my hardware broken I'd rather wipe my harddrive and and try with a fresh windows install.

Now that I think of how old it ist, I might clean up my computer from the inside. Maybe this is related to some kind of heat-issue though I'd expect my whole computer to crash and not just Arma but who knows.

[Pyromanuel 0]

So I cleaned it up from the inside... holy shit how can there be so much dust?! CPU cooler was pretty much blocked. After cleaning I also turned one fan to maximum power that was on the lowest setting. So thanks for your Question, Applejaxc. If I hadn't thought about how my machine is I probably wouldn't have cleaned it ^^

I have just played an almost 2 1/2 h session without any problems. Let's consider this problem solved: Hardware overheating.

I still find it strange that the game just crashes, if it's an overheating issue I expect the whole computer to have problems, not just a "Arma 2 ahs stopped working, we have no clue why."-generic message. Well, maybe that didn't have anything to do with the cleaning at all and it's just coincidence... whatever, if that problem returns I'll come back to ask here ;)

[Wazza 274]

I have a similar issue but with no message.. My game crashed to desktop but i can still hear the audio and move around in game i just cant see anything. I have to alt tab out of the game and shut it down. I have no idea why it does this as some days i can play for hours with no problems and other days it happenes several times in a session.

Could it be something trying to update in the back ground or something like that? i have no idea